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Charley, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Adams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Richardson quadrangle.

Charley within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

141 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Charley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,863 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning45
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2010Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINEY POINT FARM
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHARLIE HOLLOW
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charley in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCharley$1,500A tree blew down onto power lines.
February 2012HailCharley-no account filed
May 2009HailCharley-no account filed
January 1998HailCharley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Noris1.7 miles17
Meades Branch (historical)1.9 miles17
Ulysses2.7 miles17
Georges Creek2.7 miles17
Kise (historical)2.7 miles17
Ledocio3.8 miles23
Ben Bow3.9 miles17
Brows Defeat (historical)3.9 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122565449The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 489366. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.